The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-02-20
TRENTON NOTES.
What is Said About Men and Things at
Mt the state Capitol.

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| provided for him.
That was very verdant Sergt ant-at-
| Arms who attempted to eject member OF
the joint Legislature on Wednesday,.
"A suit over a will in which State Prison
Keeper Patterson's family is interested is
under advisement in the Court of Chan
| Gerry.
Senator Griggs had lots of fun in the
| Joint Meeting on Wednesday. And it can
not be denied he outgeneraled all his OPP
ponents.
What a terrible head-swelliDg these
papers that are landing youEg Mr.. Mat
thews to the skies are giving thai precoeious
| young statesman.
The heirs Of the late State Senator
| Miller, of Bergen County, have secured
cent judgment against the Pennsylvania
Railroad, for infringement of his car-brake
! patent
The Democrats have more than won
back the vantage ground they lost on We'd
| nesday, barring the casting of the votes
which threw the Craftsmanship of the joint
meeting to the other side.
-Ex-Judge William H. Morrow, whom
Baird covered with odium by voting for
him for United States Senator, is Warren
County's Prohibitionist and ran on that
ticket for Congress last fall.
The Jeffersonian Club of Newark has
passed resolutions calling upon Demo
cratic members OF the Legislature to keep
their faith to their constituents by electing
Democrat to the United States Senate
Frank McDermitt, when he said he
could name the man who it was alleged
tempered with the tally list onWednesday,
referred to Reading Clerk Herb. Potts.
Herb. insists that he didn't touch the tally
sheet.
The pusilanimity of Fred Fish has
gained for him the supreme contempt of
the men who know him by very large ma
jority. AS to whose collar he wears there's
no possible doubt, Notwithstanding his re-
buke of his boss last winter.
The New York ssWorld" finds the
Presidential preferences of our member of
the Legislature to be as follows: Repubi-
cans, Blaine 81, Sherman 4. Lincoln 2, Ed
munds /, non-committal 10. Democrats,
Hill IT, Cleveland 3, Albeit 1, non-commit-
tai %.
The most emphatic denanciation of
Speaker Baird was by Wolverton, the man
whose vote made him Speaker. 1t was
during the discussion in the Haines-T urley
case and the Speaker took every word of it
without evea calling the gentleman to or
der. OF course he knew he deserved every
word of it.
What did the Democratic Senators
think of the Senatorial courtesy that led
them to make Senate President Fish Chair
man of the Joint Convention, when half
an hour later they voted in solid phalanx
to override, on an appeal, one of his out
rageous decisions?
The Democrats who voted to make
Freddie chairman of the Joint Meeting
made very serious blunder. Where is
the Republican who would have made his
vote count in the selection OF Democratic
presiding officer? We may look in vain for
any other answer to that question than
mo wherer
Until Barrett, of Essex-when the Re-.
publican Assemblymen withdrewto the Sem
ate Chamber last Wednesday noon--waved
his hand over the sea of heads at the doors
leading to the Assembly Chamber and ex-
claimed: democrats, follow mev' the
Democrats were in quandary as to what
they would do. They followed Barrett.
CLARK Atkinson got unduly excited
about the footing of khe check list in the
Joint Meeting on Wednesday. He inferred
that the list had been tempered with. 1t
had not exactly been tempered with, al
though it had been changed and, as
changed, the footings were correct. Joe
had made the mistake himself in his own
footing.
The Republicans say that if the Demo-
Gratis unseat Baird, the Senate won't recog-
nize the acts of a new Speaker. Then they
might as well adjourn the Legislature in
the event of the selection of new presid-
= &c h.
is. however, that the Senators are as aDx-
ious to get some of their bills through, and
that their pressure will insist upon the
recognition of the House organization.
-Assemblyman Oviatt is probably the
ablest parliamentarian in the Legislature,
as he demonstrated by the neat manner in
which he outgeneraled the Democrats last
Wednesday noon, by declaring that sThe
hour has now arrived when the Legislature
must meet in Joint assembly to elect a
United States Senator" and then stepping
from the Speakers platform and following
the Republicans to the Senate Chamber.
Rule SIS, it is true, gives State officers
the privilege OF che floor, but it is an open
question whether or not the 'sprivilege"
so extended, allows State officers, especial
ly in times of great political excitement, to
commune with members in their seats
Neverth eless, the howl against Comptroller
Anderson the other day gained nothing for
the howlers. The Major retired with good
grace and in dignified manner when ap-
preached by the SergeaHt-at-Arms.
Supreme Court Justice Magic, who has
just been reappoiated, was originally APP
pointed Supreme Court Justice by Gov
ernor Mcclellan in 1880. His circuit con-
sists of Morris, Sussex and Somerset coun-
ties. Justice Parker was also appointed
by Governor Mcclellan In 1880. His cir
cult consists of the counties of Burlington,
Camden and Gloucester. The term of
Office is seven years, the fixed salary 81, 900
per year and the fees, sufficient to bring
the total pay up to $4,000 year.